The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
Following a snide comment i made to Stead in an e-mail yesterday:
Meetings are an efficient way of getting nothing done. Enjoy.
I was just wondering what everyone else's experiences with meetings were.
In general, I find that very little is actually achieved in the meeting proper. There seems to be a lot of discussion around the periphery of a given subject, with lots of people saying things like 'I'll have to take that away with me' or 'Lets take that offline'. Any actual decision making or action seems to happen before or after the meeting, which makes me wonder what the point of the meeting was in the first place!
I find (found, sniff) that the productivity has an inverse relationship with formality. "can I see you about...?" usually results in a useful meeting. Highly structed agendas, circulated with 17 184 page documents to be discussed result in going round in circles & nothing happening.
If I had nothing to do, or things I didn't want to do, meetings offered up a nice distraction. If I was busy, they were a real PITA and those were the ones that always lasted for half a day.
These days they tend to be a fair bit punchier and we make sure that actions get followed up etc. A lot of the meetings I attend are meetings where we give authority for stuff to proceed or we stop things happening where we have concerns, so from that point of view they work quite well.
Some 'team meetings' seem to be held so we can say we hold them though....
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"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
...Ben
